Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

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• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Wisdom
  • Ignore

• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Mom

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Gun
  • Times

• The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • American
  • America
  • Independent

• I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Date

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Job

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Champion
  • Modesty

• I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Rich
  • Humble

• I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Friends
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Work
  • Mad

• I know one business, and that's how to make software.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Business
  • Know
  • Software

• I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Always
  • Challenges
  • Young

• There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Real
  • Value

• The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Book
  • Computer
  • Symbol

• Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Country
  • History

• I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

  

  Alice Herz-Sommer
  • Beautiful
  • Forward
  • Backwards